root cause

root cause

The most fundamental, central, or basic causal element of something. Violence in this part of town is rampant, but the root cause is really poverty and the wide distribution of narcotics.You're never going to solve your company's financial issues if you can't identify the root cause of your flagging sales.

After calling out the problems, the people who do the affected work attempt to quickly solve the problem to root cause, with the aid of a designated "help chain"--designated individuals assigned to help solve problems or seek assistance from the next level of the help chain while the line staff continues to do their work for patients.

Indeed, a community impact report, released by Root Cause in the run-up to the FTAA, notes plans in Miami to reduce public housing by 75 percent, which translates into a direct attack on the livelihoods of the low-wage workers that would be displaced.

Identifying the Root Cause of Vulnerabilities - AppScan was the first solution to provide actionable results for developers, with a remediation view that enabled developers to understand the root cause of the problem, not just the symptom.

The solution helps IT organizations quickly diagnose whether root cause problems were caused by misconfigured devices, and then automate the previously manual, time consuming and expensive task of reconfiguring the devices to meet corporate and regulatory compliance standards.

With AppSight, we can not only identify our applications' performance problems faster, we also gain the visibility to rapidly determine the root cause, leading to a much faster resolution - which is the end-game, after all.

The solution enables development teams to quickly uncover the root cause of application problems, and has been proven to eliminate up to 80 percent of the cycle time traditionally consumed by root cause analysis.

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